Top 180 Epicurus Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.”

— Epicurus

102. “The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.”

— Epicurus

103. “Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.”

— Epicurus

104. “This science explains to us the meaning of terms, the nature of predication, and the law of consistency and contradiction; secondly, a thorough knowledge of the facts of nature relieves us of the burden of superstition, frees us from fear of death, and shields us against the disturbing effects of ignorance, which is often in itself a cause of terrifying apprehensions;.”

— Epicurus

105. “The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.”

— Epicurus

106. “The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.”

— Epicurus

107. “Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.”

— Epicurus

108. “The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.”

— Epicurus

109. “If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?”

— Epicurus

110. “What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?”

— Epicurus

111. “A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors’ good will.”

— Epicurus

112. “He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.”

— Epicurus

113. “To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.”

— Epicurus

114. “Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

— Epicurus

115. “By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It.”

— Epicurus

116. “A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.”

— Epicurus

117. “He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.”

— Epicurus

118. “A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.”

— Epicurus

119. “All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.”

— Epicurus

120. “Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.”

— Epicurus

121. “We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.”

— Epicurus

122. “If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don’t give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.”

— Epicurus

123. “Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.”

— Epicurus

124. “Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.”

— Epicurus

125. “Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.”

— Epicurus

126. “Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.”

— Epicurus

127. “It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”

— Epicurus

128. “What was most important in Epicurus’ philosophy of nature was the overall conviction that our life on this earth comes with no strings attached; that there is no Maker whose puppets we are; that there is no script for us to follow and be constrained by; that it is up to us to discover the real constraints which our own nature imposes on us.”

— Epicurus

129. “We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.”

— Epicurus

130. “It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn’t know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.”

— Epicurus

131. “We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it.”

— Epicurus

132. “The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.”

— Epicurus

133. “Death means nothing to us.”

— Epicurus

134. “So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist.”

— Epicurus

135. “To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.”

— Epicurus

136. “Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality.”

— Epicurus

137. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”

— Epicurus

138. “Fools are tormented by the memory of former evils; wise men have the delight of renewing in grateful remembrance the blessings of the past. We have the power both to obliterate our misfortunes in an almost perpetual forgetfulness and to summon up pleasant and agreeable memories of our successes. But when we fix our mental vision closely on the events of the past, then sorrow or gladness ensues according as these were evil or good.”

— Epicurus

139. “There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.”

— Epicurus

140. “Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.”

— Epicurus

141. “Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.”

— Epicurus

142. “The blessed and indestructible being of the divine has no concerns of its own, nor does it make trouble for others. It is not affected by feelings of anger or benevolence, because these are found where there is lack of strength.”

— Epicurus

143. “Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.”

— Epicurus

144. “There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.”

— Epicurus

145. “We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.”

— Epicurus

146. “There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.”

— Epicurus

147. “If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity.”41 In other words, a person who doubts his senses will either lose contact with the reality of the surrounding world, like the Skeptics, and become psychologically isolated and insecure, or he will fall prey, as do the religionists, to theological explanations which do not allay anxiety but foment it.”

— Epicurus

148. “Buah terbaik dari keadilan adalah ketenteraman.”

— Epicurus

149. “We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.”

— Epicurus

150. “Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.”

— Epicurus